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Really depends on the parrot! Raw is best but some like them cooked. Some will only eat cooked. Potato though MUST be cooked - do NOT offer raw potato. Mashed potato is good - most of mine love it. Dave

My U2 is very fussy with food...but he will eat anything that's warm and he loooooves mash potato.He will not eat vegetables...so I have to trick him by mashing carrots etc in with the mash potato.He also loves oven baked sweet potato,chips and roasted parsnips and he also goes crazy for pasta.Saffie on the other hand will eat anything,warm,raw,cooked, cold etc.

I thought it was the height of laziness until I tried it but the supermarkets sell frozen potato, or mixed veg, mash in pellets. I microwave a couple of pellets with a few frozen pea and the SH quaker loves it. Its worked with sick birds too, as I can hide guardian angel or vitamins in it.

I thought it was the height of laziness until I tried it but the supermarkets sell frozen potato, or mixed veg, mash in pellets. I microwave a couple of pellets with a few frozen pea and the SH quaker loves it. Its worked with sick birds too, as I can hide guardian angel or vitamins in it.

frozen mash /veg is a godsend lol I love it...especially for a night i might be working on a bit at home and cant spend ages peeling spuds etc and birds are yelling for tea and im not planning to eat till late lol

If I freeze surplus fruit diced and peeled, is it OK to give, assuming I 've thoroughly defrosted it? And what food gathered from the wild (suitably sourced and thoroughly cleaned) could I offer an ammy?

Brothers and sisters I bid you beware
Of giving your heart to a bird to tear...

I never knew raw potato was poison for birds,I knew avocado and chocolate could kill them and also tht coffee was bad for them....thank goodness I have never tried feeding it to them.I have just Google'd it and found this site,it is very useful,I have printed it and put it on my fridge.

I'll make sure to look for the offers on soft fruit a and berries then. I suspect he'll want yogurt on his .lol. There used to be an aviaries near us that used to let their breeding birds free fly so they got a wide range of foods. It used to be quite odd seeing conjures watching the traffic go by next to the dual carriageway!!

Brothers and sisters I bid you beware
Of giving your heart to a bird to tear...

I can't honestly tell you Deb. I guess it depends on the size of the bird (a budgie would tolerate less than a macaw). I have given our CAGs a teaspoonful of yogurt and they've been OK. I'm sure someone else will know.

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